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Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Prayer flags fluttering above Nepal. Image Courtesy of Emaline Laney.

How Emaline Laney Found the Untold Global Health Story of 2017

Urmila Devi Poddar stands beside her husband Ladayan Poddar, who accidentally touched a live wire and suffered burns so severe that his right arm had to be amputated.

Images of Blazing Injustice: Nepal's Burn Survivors

Anita Neupane following surgery on a contracture that goes from her right shoulder to her waist, which prevents her from lifting her arm.

Fighting Fire with Prevention

Joanne Silberner in classroom in Nepal

Witness to Injustice

Saraswoti, who suffered terrible burns when she stumbled into a pot of oil heating on the open-fire stove in the middle of her family’s one-room home, sits with her father.

Unmeasured and Unfunded: Lack of Data Hinders Burn Prevention and Care

Saraswoti Shrestha was burned as a child when she fell into a cooking fire in her family's previous one-room home.

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Dr. Shankar Man Rai taking a skin graft in a Nepal operating room.

Reconstructing Hope: A Surgeon's Mission to Help Nepal's Burn Patients

A deaf Tanzanian American and a student in a deaf unit in Tanzania signing their identical "sign names." Image/Amabilis Batamula

The Untold Global Health Story Contest Winners of 2017